John Rogan (2)Besprekingen

Unless I am mistaken this book was written by an amateur historian. As such it's a nice achievement, but it's greatest weaknesses are that it's too short even for an introductory book and that the bibliography only contains about twenty references. The author seems to be competent on each topic, but he treats them very briefly and there seems to be no general plan for tying the chapters together. Chapter 4, where the author recounts correspondence sent between a local governor and the emperor Trajan, is the most interesting one because it actually goes into some detail on practical government.